 | Isaac Taylor - 1836 - 462 pages
...cases of extreme necessity, a morsel of tobacco in the mouth will prevent a man from fainting with hunger for a considerable time. Another mode of using...lowest and coarsest leaves, to strengthen the plant. This laborious work is done by negro slaves. When the leaves turn brown, the plants are cut down, and... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1850 - 688 pages
...length, of a yellow green; those nearest the ground are the largest, but they make the coarsest tobacco. As the plants grow, they require much attention, to...keep the ground between the rows clear from weeds ; nnd to pull off all the lowest and coarsest leaves from the plant itself, in order to feed more fully... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...length, of a yellow green ; those nearest the ground are the largest, hut they make the coarsest tobacco. As the plants grow they require much attention, to...and to pull off all the lowest and coarsest leaves from tho plant itself, in order to feed more fully the upper ones. The laborious work is done by negroes.... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...the coarsest tobacco. As tb plants grow they require much attention, to keep the ground between tb rows clear from weeds, and to pull off all the lowest and coarsest leave* fr-.m the plant itself, in order to feed more fully the upper ones. The laborío« work is done... | |
 | 1853 - 468 pages
...length, of a yellow green ; those nearest the ground are the largest, but they make the coarsest tobacco. As the plants grow they require much attention, to...and to pull off all the lowest and coarsest leaves from the plant itself, in order to feed more fully the upper ones. The laborious work is done by negroes.... | |
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The stem is pretty straight, rather hairy and clammy. The leaves are of considerable length, of a yellow green ; those nearest the ground are the largest, but they make the coarsest tobacco. As the plants grow they require much attention, to keep the... 